[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Chef 11.8 Dependency Question

[Mike < >]

> In the bigger picture, it may be best if plugins do not specify a dependency on Chef. The downside to that is plugins can’t specify a minimum version of chef they support. I don’t have a good solution for that right now.

I recently ran into this very problem.

I've since changed my plugin to have Chef version as a development dependency instead of a runtime one, since the plugin is only going to run under Chef anyways, so the runtime is somewhat guaranteed to be in a Chef version.

The problem arises when the plugin is targeted towards a specific Chef version(s), and that's currently the only way to constrain things. However, if you're constraining on a specific X.Y.Z version of Chef, you should be ok. It's where 11.8.0 introduces new dependencies that were not previously there - that's where we're all getting stuck.

-M

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Daniel DeLeo < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

On Friday, November 1, 2013 at 10:20 AM, David Petzel wrote:

Thanks John,

So I'm not sure I following your comment. I did install via omnibus, so I don't have build tools installed, which is where the issue seems to stem from. Here is a GIST of what I'm seeing.

https://gist.github.com/dpetzel/7268621

Even when attempting to install manually I'm hitting that error.

Rubygems, by default, will upgrade every gem it possibly can when installing a new gem. This means that if any “chef plugin” kind of project specifies a dependency on Chef, rubygems will try to upgrade chef when you install it. I don’t know exactly when the option was added, but newish versions of rubygems have a `—conservative` option that should disable that behavior. I’d need to look more in-depth to see how you should use this with the chef_gem or gem_package resources, but it should work if you give that option as a string to the options parameter.

In the bigger picture, it may be best if plugins do not specify a dependency on Chef. The downside to that is plugins can’t specify a minimum version of chef they support. I don’t have a good solution for that right now.

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Daniel DeLeo